Originally Posted By: Carcassman


Sporties have killed all the coho they want? Maybe at Buoy Zooey or in the ocean but what about the folks who fish the rivers upstream of the gillnet fishery?



a few of us are concerned about that especially if they go to a method with a low release rate that will allow them to take more fish, alot of stuff going on doesn't make sense to me, how bout this one, some puget sound chinook salmon populations have up to 70 percent hatchery fish on the spawning grounds so the brilliant idea is to change all the harvest on them from here to alaska to selective hatchery fish only fisherys to fish that 70 percent down, common sense would tell me that if they do that and i`m fishing for those same hatchery fish at one of the river mouths that there aint going to be to many hatchery fish to fish for, our problem is that we need a big agregate of fish to have good sportfishing and if you take that away sportfishing will suck, we have some real problems that we need to realy think about before we act.